GCMS Lab Engineer: Cleanroom Analytics & Instrumentation

KLA; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) matching

ESP P offering

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

KLA is seeking a Laboratory Analyst to operate and maintain GCMS equipment, prepare samples, and deliver precise contamination analyses for production components. You will work in a cleanroom environment, interpret results, and generate accurate reports to support manufacturing priorities in a fast-paced setting.

The role requires collaboration with chemists, managing lab inventories, and ensuring trace-level impurities are identified and quantified.

Qualifications

• AA degree (or equivalent vocational training) with hands-on experience in a cleanroom or laboratory setting.
• Experience operating, calibrating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing analytical instruments.
• Ability to read technical drawings, schematics and apply precision measurement techniques.

Responsibilities

• Operate, calibrate, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair GCMS instruments to keep the lab running at peak performance.
• Prepare samples, perform analytical tests, interpret results, and deliver accurate reports in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Identify and quantify trace impurities and target compounds.
• Set up materials outgassing experiments, collect data, analyze results, and document thoroughly.
• Collaborate with MDE chemists and internal manufacturing customers.

Skills

Analytical instrumentation

Lab troubleshooting

Mechanical aptitude

Reading schematics

Python

SQL

Data analysis

REST APIs

Education

AA degree or equivalent vocational training

Tools

GCMS instruments

Laboratory data systems

REST APIs

Azure cloud

Job description

KLA is seeking a Laboratory Analyst to operate and maintain GCMS equipment, prepare samples, and deliver precise contamination analyses for production components. You will work in a cleanroom environment, interpret results, and generate accurate reports to support manufacturing priorities in a fast-paced setting.

The role requires collaboration with chemists, managing lab inventories, and ensuring trace-level impurities are identified and quantified.